Posted on 07/22/2012 1:38:27 PM PDT by scottjewell
Edited on 07/22/2012 1:44:39 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Yesterday afternoon, 28-year-old Dave Mullins and 31-year-old Charlie Craig stopped by Lakewood's Masterpiece Cakeshop to order their wedding reception cake -- what they hoped would be a rainbow-layered masterpiece decked out in teal and red frosting (their ceremony colors). Although they'll be reciting their vows in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in September, the couple plans to celebrate with a reception for friends and family in Denver in October.
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I know exactly where this cake shop is, and I’m sure these men knew exactly the type of reaction their request would get. Why didn’t they go to the gay-owned alternative-themed cake shop to begin with? Like you said, it’s all about extortion, and attention.
Of course they could. But this is about creating an "incident" to generate negative publicity about Masterpiece. I'm pretty sure their gay friends in Denver told them what would happen when they went into the shop.
Look, if these two guys want they can open their own bakeshop and when a man and woman come and ask for a wedding cake, they can say: “Sorry, we don’t do ‘his and hers’ wedding cakes.” That would be THEIR right, just as it is the right of Masterpiece Cakeshop to not do ‘his and his’ wedding cakes.
Revisionist history. Gale Norton was the Attorney General when Amendment 2 was argued at the Supreme Court on 10 October 1995, Romer v. Evans. The court rendered its 6-3 decision that Amendment 2 was unconstitutional on 20 May 1996. Salazar was sworn in as Attorney General on 12 January 1999.
The precedent has been set; when the flying feathers finally settle, the building in which this bakery formerly operated will probably be a gey bar, massage parlor and/ or bath house.
Remember; back in Biblical Sodom these cats didn’t want to just seduce the pretty angels; they wanted to RAPE them.
It’s not about “rights”; it’s all about POWER.
Business owners could avoid a lot of trouble if they only said the following:
“Sorry, but we’re all booked up.”
3...2...1 I am waitng fo Ellen DeGereres to show up and pay for their wedding trip to Provincetown and reception in Denver.
I would not make a cake for them either. My business, my right to not act in a way that promotes immorality, indecency and perversion
The courts might be able to force them to make a cake, but they can’t force them to make a good cake.
That would be good for a business that is truly booked up but for a business that isn’t and the owners are Christian, lying like that would probably bother them more than the job itself.
I believe the business owners should go ahead and take the job, do the best they can with it like they would with any customer and let these agitators know that their payment will be donated to the local Exodus International, P-FOX (Parents and Friends of EX-Gays) or any other organization (Christian or not) dedicated to helping homosexuals escape this sin. In fact, mention that on the first visit if they bring up their “proclivities”. Draw up a legally binding contract that would provide major grief if they decide to breach it.
That would probably stop a lot of these “set ups”.
That sounds like a pretty good idea.
Does Denver have gay inclusive non-discrimination laws? If yes, the owners of the cakeshop need to close up shop and move their assets overseas. They will shortly be getting a short letter from the ACLU, and the next several years will be spent in nerve wracking court battles. Also personal harassment, and protesters outside their shop.
Gays should be denied using the rainbow in any way. It disgusts me how they just up and stole the f-ing thing, and now we can’t buy our kids ANYTHING with a rainbow on it. Sickening.
HAHA! I guess you haven't read the New International Version of the Constitution, with the right to abortion, "equal rights" for homosexuals (and soon pedophiles and polygamists) and without any right to bear arms. THAT is the version which 80% of judges across the land use now, and it is what will DESTROY Mr. Phillips before the end.
Thus, the media wars against traditional values take another turn and homosexual behavior gets yet another face-lift in the public eye. Not as the gross misuse of our human sexuality it is but some sort of pure, love-based human right being horribly abused by a guy who bakes cakes for a living and didn't sell one to the gay man who cursed at him as he left the baker's shop. Only in Obama's America.
The social media calls it a “cash mob.” People are tweeted to show up at a local business and spend money. The purpose is to support locally owned businesses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_mob
Right on all counts. Yep, they spoiled the rainbow.
Thank you, I stand corrected.
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